goofy
January 17, 2023, 7:18pm
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We don’t have a thread for this yet, right?
Rishi Sunak’s government has blocked legislation passed by the Scottish parliament that would make Scotland the first part of the UK to introduce a self-identification system for people who want to change gender.
The Scottish secretary, Alister Jack , announced that he would use section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 for the first time to halt the gender recognition bill after a review by UK government lawyers.
Westminster’s decision to use the “nuclear option” of blocking the bill from going for royal assent represents a significant escalation of tensions around the issue, and will enrage supporters of the changes and nationalists.
UK ministers, who met in Westminster on Monday to consider how to approach the legislation, are concerned the bill will have an “adverse impact” on UK-wide equalities law. Sources said blocking it would protect the devolution settlement and denied claims they were trying to inflame tensions as part of a culture war.
I think they’re trying to inflame tensions as part of a culture war. Very cool that fucking with trans people is the first time in the history of the modern Scottish Parliament that London’s like “we cannot stand for this” and presses that button
goofy
March 10, 2023, 7:46pm
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Sunak’s Tory government is making Nazis proud:
“Bravo,” wrote the Alternative für Deutschland party on social media. “Way to go! The current [British] government plans now to deny asylum to illegal immigrants and fly them out to Rwanda,” the party wrote on Facebook, saying Germany should follow this approach. “When will we finally have it?”
The EU migration commissioner Ylva Johansson, however, said she had told Suella Braverman that her plan violates international law, after the home secretary called her to explain the bill. “Of course, I hope that it will respect the international agreements and the Geneva convention, but I must say that my first impression was that I’m afraid that there might be violations here,” Johansson told reporters on Thursday, promising further study of the draft legislation.
“You have to have some kind of individual assessment of people coming before you just put them into detention,” the Swedish commissioner had previously told Politico .
Under the government’s plans , adults arriving in the UK on small boats or in the back of a lorry would be denied the right to claim asylum, even if they had come from a war zone or faced persecution in countries well known for human rights abuses.
Instead people would be sent back to “a country or territory to which there is reason to believe [they would] be admitted”, the country that they had embarked from to the UK, their country of origin or another country where they held a passport, according to the draft bill.
goofy
March 11, 2023, 10:12pm
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BBC having a normal one:
Lineker (a famous former player & longtime host of BBC’s Match of the Day) criticized the Conservatives’ illegal migration bill:
The latest controversy began with a tweet on Tuesday from Lineker’s account describing the government’s plan to detain and deport migrants arriving by boat as “an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s.”
The Conservative government called Lineker’s Nazi comparison offensive and unacceptable, and some lawmakers said he should be fired.
The BBC (a government company!) suspended him for doing so, and the entire English soccer world is like “lol fuck no”:
The BBC was forced to scrap much of its weekend sports programming as the network scrambled to stem an escalating crisis over its suspension of soccer host Gary Lineker for comments criticizing the British government’s new asylum policy.
As a growing number of English Premier League players and BBC presenters rallied to Lineker’s support and refused to appear on the airwaves on Saturday, Britain’s national broadcaster faced allegations of political bias and suppressing free speech, as well as praise from some Conservative politicians.
The broadcaster said it would air only “limited sport programming” this weekend after hosts of many of its popular sports shows declined to appear, in solidarity with Lineker.
The union said it was a “common sense solution” to avoid players facing sanctions for breaching their broadcast commitments.
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Lol, never forget, the British are the original Americans.
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This is a stolen take but British people are the whitest people. They’re white^2.
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The UK is kind of a divine-right dictatorship these days:
Surf
May 8, 2023, 1:37am
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Got a dumb coronation question, was the king actually the king before the ceremony or had some sort of placeholder title?
goofy
May 8, 2023, 2:24am
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Wikipedia suggests that yes, he was the king:
The coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla , as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms , took place on 6 May 2023 at Westminster Abbey . Charles acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022, upon the death of his mother , Elizabeth II .
@CaffeineNeeded was right a while back when he pointed out the French keep their leaders the right amount of scared.
UK and US leaders can’t even bother to pretend like they’re scared. They don’t have a care in the world.
In other news here’s why our politicians don’t like tiktok: #greenscreen for legal reasons, this is a joke. #guillotine | TikTok
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france has had a rich history of executing their leaders, so there’s that
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eus-von-der-leyen-is-running-be-new-nato-head-the-sun-2023-03-31/
She was German minister of defense from 2013 until 2019. Let’s check how that turned out:
“The Bundeswehr still has too little of everything: there is a lack of ammunition, spare parts, radios, tanks, ships and aircraft.”
